Reyes Cardenas's "Calcetines"

I just posted this to

Reyes Cardenas's blog & I just gotta post his poem, "Calcetines".

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Lorna Dee Cervantes  said...

Dang, Reyes! You make me cry. That good. My son gets a bag of underwear every year, along with all his other presents, just to remember, just so I re-member. Gracias, for remembering. I think I'll go wrap something in the funny papers now...

April 20, 2005 9:49 AM
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005




Calcetines

We were so poor
when we were growing up
Christmas meant

a pair of socks for me,
and that was it.
My uncle Frank

and Aunt Luisa
gave me those socks
once a year

whether
I needed them
or not.

These were not the socks
from Neruda’s
Ode To A Sock,

these were not
Kafka’s
insect socks,

these were not
sock drawers
in a Borges mirror,

these were plain and simple
brown, chicano
socks.

Now all
I needed
was zapatos.



posted by RC @ 3:00 AM